Adobe team invites you to join us at Flex Camp, a free one night gathering with food, drinks, coding and time with the Flex and Adobe AIR engineers covering everything you need to know about the upcoming release of Flex 3 and Adobe AIR.
Bring your laptop, we'll provide the food, drinks and swag.
Registration required
Visit http://flexcamp.eventbrite.com/ to register (its free, but we need to know you're coming)
Location:
Adobe San Francisco Office
601 Townsend St.
San Francisco, CA
Date:
July 27th, 2007
Agenda
Doors open for Flex 101 at 3:30 PM
4:00 PM - 5:00 - Optional - Flex 101 by Ted Patrick - Only for developers new to Flex
Doors open for Flex Camp at 5:00 PM
5:00 PM - 6:00 - Welcome - Food, drinks, registration.
6:00 PM - 6:30 - Keynote - The vision for Flex, the Flash Platform and open source initiatives
6:30 PM - 7:15 - Introduction to Flex Builder 3 - What's new in Flex 3
7:15 PM - 7:30 - Break
7:30 PM - 8:15 - Flex 3 and CS 3 Integration - Improving the workflow between designers and developers
8:15 PM - 9:00 - Getting started with Adobe AIR and Flex 3 - Building your first AIR application
9:00 PM - 9:10 - Break
9:10 PM - 9:40 - Camp Session 1 - See below
9:40 PM - 9:50 - Break
9:50 PM - 10:20 - Camp Session 2 - See below
10:20 PM - 10:30 - Break
10:30 PM - 11:00 - Camp Session 3 - See below
11:00 PM - 11:30 - Open Q and A
You will determine content for the Camp Sessions. There will be 3 separate areas setup where you can get together for specific topics.
Camp Session Ideas
Have an idea for something that you'd like to see?
Format:
Title - Name - Description
Attendees
Mike Potter, Interested? Add your name here.
Flex and PHP - Mike Potter - I'd like to see a session on Flex and PHP
Andrew Laffoon - but lets talk about rails too! :)
Sam Nichols - What exactly would be discussed? Socket servers, serialized data?
Randy Fong - Yes, looking forward to it. Will the other sessions be recorded?
Chris Charlton - Mapping PHP Classes to AS Objects/Classes is a neat topic many haven't seen yet. (DTO/VO/etc.)
Shawn White
Bob Breckenridge - would like to see QuickTest Pro demo which is able to recognize Flex objects on HTML pages, so we can automate testing. Also any tips about setup and installation.
Universal Runtime Debugging: REDbug Testing Suite - David Hassoun (Adobe Certified Master Instructor & chief architect of RealEyes Media) & Jun Heider (Adobe Certified Instructor & senior Flex Developer of RealEyes Media) - Creating and using a universal Flash & Flex debugging and testing suite made with Flex 3 and Adobe AIR. This presentation would show the hows, why's, and uses of Flex and AIR based debugging tools for enterprise application development and testing based on a set of tools RealEyes Media has developed with Flex 3 and AIR for Flash (7,8,9+)and Flex development.
David Hassoun and Jun Heider, Interested? ->Add your name here: Lisa Wilson, Lance Linder, Tom Burnett, Steven Boynes.
Flex and Illustrator - Sam Nichols - I'd like to learn more about skinning Flex apps with Illustrator, including exporting component skins from Flex and what exactly to do in Illustrator to make things work. Maybe expand on this
- Sam Nichols, Interested? Add your name here: Lance Linder, Brian Ghidinelli, Gavin Harvey
Flex and Java - James Ward - Don't know what we will focus on yet... depends on what the attendees want.
->Add your name here:
Flex and Salesforce - James Ward - Flex & AIR in the enterprise
->Add your name here:
Coding Sprint - James Ward - Bring your laptop and lets build something neat - this one could go all night :)
->Add your name here: Chris Charlton
Flex and .NET - Andy Webb - I would love to present on Flex and .NET integration (via web services) and show a sample application if anyone is interested.
->Add your name here: Chris Charlton (got a .Net client soon)
Flex for SAP Enterprise Applications - Matthias Zeller - I could show some sample applications and share some customer use cases. We can also discuss the different integration options to connect Flex apps to SAP.
-> Add you name here
Flex and Real Time Dashboards - Phil Heinz - Explore the data acquisition and distribution methods of InteliSea using industrial equipment, .NET and Flex.
->Add your name here: Lance Linder
Flex on Facebook - Michael Galpin - Facebook applications are extremely popular. However, developing an app can be very restrictive, very awkward, or both. Using Flex can remove these restrictions and make it easy to build your Facebook application.
->Add your name here: Andrew Laffoon (I'm definitely interested in this). Bill Katz. Daryn Nakhuda, Forrest Oliphant, Ali Mills
Introduction to Flex and Sprouts - Luke Bayes - You could find out the answers to many important questions like, "What the H#%& are Sprouts?", "What should they mean to me?" and "Do they REALLY work on Mac, DOS, Cygwin AND Linux?" Here's a demo of the original incarnation
->Add your name here: Chris Charlton (I'm interested in seeing stuff with this), Ali Mills, Shawn White
ColdFusion + Flex Integration - needs leader - ColdFusion has built-in flex hooks in 7 and 8 providing rapid application development features. Drink the full Adobe stack kool-aid!
->Add your name here: Brian Ghidinelli, Tom Burnett, Mark Altenbernd, Steven Boynes.
Flex Community Libraries - Doug Mc Cune - If you're lazy and want to make cool apps then just take advantage of the work that other people have done. Let's talk about FlexLib, PaperVision3D, Actionscript Physics Engine, FZip, Tweener, Ely's components, all the api libs out there (flickr, youtube, facebook, amazon s3, etc etc), and all the other open source libraries that people have made. With so much good code already written you shouldn't have to work very hard.
->Add your name here: Lance Linder, Brian Ghidinelli, Bill Katz, Tom Burnett, Steven Boynes, Gavin Harvey, Forrest Oliphant, Chris Charlton, Ali Mills, Shawn White
Scion.com and Flex 2 - James Polanco (Flex Architect / Lead Developer) and Doug Winnie (Process Architect / Group Manager) - We will present an overview of the core system and process that allowed us to develop and launch the new Flex 2 / AS3 Scion website.
->Add your name here:
Flex and JBoss Seam - Felipe Albertao (Boulevard R) - JBoss Seam is a new Java EJB3 lightweight web framework that provides an excellent ajax-based remote interface, which turned out to be a great back-end solution for Flex. Depending on what attendees want, we can give an overview of JBoss Seam, how it fits together with Flex, and also show off a real-world application using this architecture.
->Add your name here:
Flex & Drupal - Chris Charlton (LA Air user group) - Flex shows off data from a database, but how much do you really want to slave over SQL code and database structures if you don't always have to?! I'm willing to introduce my favorite PHP CMS framework, Drupal, and show how some folks are wiring Flex to it.
-> Add your name here to attend: Shawn White
Comparing and Contrasting Flex Architectures - Group Discussion - This session is a group discussion where we will compare and contrast different ways to architect a Flex project. The goal of this session is finding the answer to the question, "What is the right way to architect a Flex application?". Ideally, we will discuss some well defined architectures like Cairngorm and PureMVC and in the process compare and contrast their strengths and weaknesses with one another.
Resources: Flex Developer Center, Cairngorm, PureMVC
-> Add your name here to attend: Luke Bayes, Ali Mills
Flex with Ruby on Rails - NEEDS PRESENTER - Flex is hot! Ruby on Rails is Hot! How can we get these two technologies to work together? Come to this session to find out.
Resources: RubyOnRails (1.1) and Flex (2.0): Pt 1, RubyOnRails (1.1) and Flex (2.0): Pt 2, Integrating Flex 2 and Ruby on Rails, The Ruby on Rails RIA SDK by Adobe, WebORB (Flex and Flash Remoting clients and Ruby on Rails applications), RubyAMF (Flash Remoting with Ruby), Ruby on Rails
-> Add your name here to attend:
Open Source Flex - NEEDS PRESENTER - On April 26, Adobe announced that it would be moving Flex to an open source model. What does this mean? In this session, we will try to clarify what it means. We will discuss how to participate in the development of Flex 3 - where to download the source, how to file bugs, how to fix bugs. In general, we will discuss how to contribute to the future of Flex.
Resources: Flex 3 complete spec, daily builds of Flex 2.0.1, Flex Wiki, public Flex bug and issue manager, open source Flex on Adobe Labs, opensource.adobe.com, Open at Adobe
-> Add your name here to attend:
Hotel
If you require a hotel room for the event, we have worked with the Fairmont San Francisco to secure rooms at a discounted rate. To access this room block, please call 1-800-441-1414 and refer to the "Adobe Flex Launch" rate for the Fairmont San Francisco. Discounted rooms are available for both July 26th and July 27th, with rates starting at $209.00 for a queen size bed.
Adobe AIR Derby
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